Anybody out there tried this out. Think tank is offering essentially 28 days to try out their belt and modular system. Wondering what your experiences were with the billing aspect of it. Their site says that your card will not be charged unless you decide to keep the items however mine appears to have put the funds in pending using a debit/credit card and has them tied up.

Unfortunately that is the way most banks work. TT had to run your card to make sure that you have the funds, but if they do not finalize the transaction it goes to limbo for a few days. You can see similar from restaurants, 1 charge run without the tip that disappears after a few days and a second with the tip that geas through.

The banks like to hold on to our money.... what the old line "Possesion is nine tenths of the law".

Redfive21 wrote:
Their site says that your card will not be charged unless you decide to keep the items however mine appears to have put the funds in pending using a debit/credit card and has them tied up.

That's a lien. Ensures the funds are available when the company you owe the money to needs it.

Just got the kit yesterday. It's pretty nice, very well built and high quality. Looking forward to trying it out this weekend. Although I don't know if I'll actually need all the pieces that this kit came with, probably just the belt and pouches for 24-70 and 70-200.

We've had a number of questions regarding the lien holds on customers' credit cards. It's a shame, because it makes us look like the bad guys. We've added some language that there may be a hold, but I think we're going to have change the language further to make it clearer on the next Test Drive Program that we run.